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BANGALORE: AT&T Asia/Pacific Group is currently busy expanding its security suite of services, after having focused on expanding its network over the last six months.
John Mulligan, director, planning and engineering, AT&T Asia/Pacific Group Ltd, said: "We are currently expanding our security suite of services. We recently announced our anti-spam suite of solutions. We look at monitoring events before those occur in a network. We are looking at making the network more robust, and bring intelligence into the network so that the service qualities are protected."
Security is among the top concerns of CIOs. Network security is definitely a major area of concern.
He added: "We started building our network over four years ago. Analysts estimate that we are a year ahead of competition. Our new suite of services are pro-active and bring protection up to the network. We can set up multilayers of protection and block attacks on the outside of the network layer."
Greg Brutus, regional public relations director, AT&T Asia/Pacific Group, elaborated that as more device proliferated, it was becoming almost impossible to manage those.
"It is better to stop them (viruses) at the network level. Our solutions applies to mobile corporates as well. The issue would be at the actual wireless APs (access points)," he said.
Sanjiv Bhagat, country general manager, AT&T Business Services, AT&T Communication Services India, pointed out that the company's solutions took care of virus issues. However, security issues depended on the Wi-Fi access points.
AT&T is offering a suite of solutions for enterprises. These include:
AT&T enhanced services: These are E-VPN services. It uses the MPLS core of the network. AT&T does an end-to-end management of the services, QC, etc. It also provide SLAs around the agreement.
Managed IPSec security services: AT&T offers firewall management, IPSec, etc. It also offers intrusion detection. The next step is Internet Protect. Subsequent steps involve anti-spam and email, PC monitoring and inspection. This solution is already available in the US, besides Internet Protect.
Bhagat added: "We are offering E-VPN, managed firewall in India, as well as IPSec tunnelling. This can also run over third party Internet. We can also put IPSec tunnelling over MPLS and E-VPN."
According to him, AT&T is the service provider for SWIFT worldwide. Member banks use E-VPN with IPSec tunnelling in India. "We are also working with call centers and BPOs, mainly for voice security and QoS for voice applications," added Bhagat.
There are increasing customer concerns as well as of their clients, who insist that security is built into their systems. This is to ensure planning and business continuity, noted Mulligan.
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